Soleron said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Indus._LLC_v._Blizzard_Entm%27t,_Inc. You don't actually own the software so you have no right to archival backup. I can't find any case challenging the DMCA and if it was that easy, the EFF would have done it already. |
I don't agree with those rulings at all. I own that which I buy whether it be physical or digital. That is a fundamental belief that I have and no bogus ruling is going to change that for me. But that doesn't really matter because we aren't talking about those cases we are talking about old NES games being played on modern systems, most of which can't even be found in store and the ones you can find may not even have working hardware to play it on. Either way the original content makers would see a dime from any used purchase no matter how expensive the ebay auction price. If you and other "pirate haters" had their way eventually all those old classics from the 8bit days will be lost to time. All we'd have to remember the old days are the few games companies like Nintendo feel generous enough to sell back to us when we already bought the damn thing 20 years ago. Real piracy is when someone makes a bunch of copies and sells them as new for a lower price than the real product. That's not what someone who just wants to be able to play Tiny Tune Adventures for the NES is doing when the download the ROM because their NES doesn't work anymore.
Get off your high horse and consider for one minute that some people use emulation as a tool and have no intention of harming. That's what backup and fair use laws protect. We all have the right to do what we want with our property. Once we buy something it is our property. That is fundamental even if stupid judges and lawmakers got tricked by sly lobbyists paid for by the corporations.
